The more we draw in, the more vulnerable we make ourselves, and that is what I love about this tableau on the left, the gestural inwardness matched by an emotional presence, through the regard.
The birds series is a more graphic work. The disembodiment of the human hand seems to disengage them from the fear they might otherwise feel from a human presence, and are here content and unaffected by the unexpected nature of their perch.
The “PF” portrait has inspired subsequent commissioned work and the Birds series (4 in total) was featured content by Saatchi Art.
Oil on canvas.
“PF”, 54 x 73 cm.
“Birds”, 25 x 25 cm.
More work coming soon.
Ever wondered what you’d look like with blue hands? Or if your pasta suddenly became an orchestra of colors? Colorful Lunch is a playful musing about how reality is perception, and can be as imaginative as you let it.
Marisol was a colleague and friend who happened to become infused with the superpowers of hyper color.
The last piece is half of a diptych which was created for and presented at the exhibition "Ma Chanson Préferée", with the Galerie Maison d'Art, in Osaka, Japan.
Oil on canvas
Colorful Lunch 81 x 100 cm
Marisol 50 x 65 cm
Oil on paper
Last Day of Magic 12 x12 cm
Imagination is all around us. And if we will it, we can find storytelling potential everywhere we look. In this series I worked from beauty editorials to create the protagonists of a graphic, cosmic universe.
Illustration on magazine editorials. Ink and metallic pen. Proof of concept.
From left to right, photos by Sølve Sundsbø, Aitken Jolly, Mariano Vivanco, Ben Hassett, Ben Hassett, Liz Collins